Most animal species pack sperm DNA with protamines instead of histones. Protamines are essential for male fertility. They are among the fastest-evolving genes in animals. That makes little sense. We think we know why, in a new paper led by @ching-hochang.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hello World ! Its pre-print time ! Awesome collaboration led by Michel Cohen-Tannoudji (not on Bsky) and the one and only @deborahbourchis.bsky.social. #BFF
We solved the molecular mechanism underlying a mysterious hybrid incompatibility in mice: the DDK syndrome. 🧵🍿

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bonkers: Sea levels are running 1.2ft above the late-20th century baseline in San Diego as sea surface temperatures are about 7°F warmer than normal. These highly anomalous ocean temperatures and heights will continue through winter along the California coast amid El Niño. #CAwx

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you?

PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028)

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The SSE Education and Outreach Committee is seeking speakers for the Evolution 2027 Education and Outreach Symposium titled “Evolution in a Changing World.” Nominations are due November 1! Learn more: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n
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Bye for now, Philly! I ❤️ and miss you and all the lovely peeps so much! Thank you @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social and @mjphillips.bsky.social for the amazing time!

Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱

"Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae"

We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics:

doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

@nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social
#Evolution

Thanks to this amazing team of instructors and to everyone who has joined us for the 5th edition of the #PopulationGenomics using #aDNA course!

@cegamorim.bsky.social @arunsethuraman.bsky.social & @ppezov.bsky.social

The monkeyflowers, including all those things we call Mimulus, have now been collapsed (along with some other small families) into the Orobanchaceae. This lumper couldn’t be happier. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super excited to share this study by @gamaevo.bsky.social in collaboration with Steve Nowicki and Susan Peters!!

Response to geographic song variation predicts differential gene expression in the blood of a songbird: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...